Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

This kind of result is typical when you ship a redesign of some part of your product. The new design improved on the old one in several ways, but these improvements didnt translate all the way through the funnel. Usually, I think that means youve lost some good aspect of the old design. Buy a higher quantity 2.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Finally the day came, we unleashed the landing page, emailed our existing customers, and started advertising online. False negatives would be an issue, but combining ad words with other forms of advertising, such as guerrilla marketing, might yield a more robust answer. Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I had a lot of use for this concept back when I worked on game design and virtual worlds. In order to maintain game play balance, game designers have to take into account the needs of customers who have an excess of four different assets: time , money , skill , and passion. Having a balanced ecosystem is what game designers strive for.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

They take things like unit testing, design documents and code reviews more seriously than any other company Ive even heard about. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and. Anyway, thanks Stevey for your thoughtful post.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

You can learn about customer development, and quite a bit more, in Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany. This is a self-published book, originally designed as a companion to Steves class at Berkeleys Haas school of business. Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. Good luck, engineering manager. It was painful for a lot of people.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Eric, Any thoughts on how forum feedback fits into customer development and agile product development? Youve probably addressed this in the past, but I continue to be blown away by how fast Blizzard reacts to noise in their forums and rapidly makes fixes to the product. Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

You declare how much someone clicking an advertisement is worth to you, and then the search engine does its best to get you as many clicks as it can at that price. There is much work that I need to do (the only developer so far) before we have something customers can use. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. SEM is a simple idea.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Ajay January 24, 2010 6:15 AM Matthew Ogston said. February 9, 2010 3:16 PM Anonymoussaid. I am so sick of your tweets it's advertising 24/7. April 12, 2010 7:45 AM @hankzy said. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Advertise Advertise. In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). Dont underestimate the importance of Minimum Viable Design. High virality is almost always the product of early and deliberate product design decisions.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 21, 2022

There’s no doubt about the potential of Augmented Reality (AR) and mixed reality (XR) and the role they play in advertising, social media, commerce, gaming etc. Like Meta, Snap has a booming developer community who uses Snap Lens Studioo to build AR social filters: Over 250,000 developers have published a total of 2.5

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. Still, a startup product development team is a service organization. Labels: hiring , product development 5comments: TedHoward said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Strategy - startups first encounter this when they have the beginnings of a product, and theyve achieved some amount of product/market fit. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Five Whys is designed to avoid these nebulous arguments. Labels: five whys root cause analysis , product development 15comments: Anonymoussaid. Furthermore, I think most of what you are suggesting is applicable in companies/ industries that are not software development. Leave your thoughts in a comment.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This post describes how the traditional product development model distorts startup sales, marketing and business development. The Use of a Product Development Model to Measure Sales Using the product development diagram for startup sales activities is like using a clock to tell the temperature.

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mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Sourcebits offers design and development services for iOS, Android, Mobile and Web platforms. Series Supported by Sourcebits The Mobile App Trends Series is sponsored by Sourcebits , a leading developer of applications and games for all major mobile platforms. Have an account?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Market Type also affects the market size as well as how you launch the product into the market.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Facebook Fans Recent & Upcoming Events 2010 I am experimenting with using Plancast to track my 2010 event schedule. [link] June 20, 2009 2:52 PM Anonymoussaid.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

I believe its important that product teams be cross-functional, no matter what other job function the product champion does. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and media buyers I see lots of startups whose business plans revolve around selling high-value ad space to brand advertisers. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, I became very pleasre to read it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Another great way to test your idea is to create a minimum viable product, or MVP. This is the simplest version of your product minus the frills and frosting. It’s a particularly popular strategy in the world of product development and is used to quickly and quantitatively test a product or a product feature.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. Just as Erin mentions above -- replace content with games -- the same dynamics are at work in the advertising world. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Is that a lot? Is that good?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Were not going to have any form of advertising, but I am considering trying to offer a scholarship program to worthy entrepreneurs, just as we did for the Web 2.0 Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Others have asked about sponsorship opportunities at the workshop.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In my first company, we did everything right when it came to building the product. As someone who is trained in Human Computer Interaction, I had followed the concept of User Centered Design. I tell these stories to lay the groundwork for what I am going to call Revenue Development. In fact, that wasn’t Google’s idea at all.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 14, 2013

When not at CrossFit, Steph tests content at Work Design Magazine, which she co-launched in 2010. Work Design Magazine has 5,000 email subscribers who comprise a variety of audience types within the commercial architecture and design industry. We segmented the audience between likely readers and likely advertisers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

I have wrestled with the way that companies use the "beta" designation to create an ostensible reason for a particular date being their "launch", even though the product has been publicly available for months. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

But that is not the only source of positioning: brand advertisers have been using packaging and TV ads to do this for years. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. WoW is a fun and addictive experience, and once its sucked you in its pretty hard to stop.

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Software By Rob

MAY 21, 2010

(I’ve written an entire section on the “#1 goal of your website&# in my upcoming book, Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup ). The bottom line here is to take your launch seriously, as seriously as you’ve taken your product development. Check out my book Like this post?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If your school doesn’t already have a student group designed to foster collaboration between groups of students with the skills necessary to get a startup rolling, start one! It brings together students from both the undergraduate and graduate levels, across disciplines such as design, computer science and business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 13, 2010 The Superbowl ad test I am a firm believer in the danger of vanity metrics , numbers that give the illusion of progress but often mask the true relationship between cause and effect. The unstated implication is that these features are what are leading to this tremendous growth.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

In a startup, these channels of communication are critical to understand for advertising, launch and PR purposes. If they are willing to pay big bucks, for example, to attend a conference on a certain topic, that bodes well for your ability to sell them a product related to that topic. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

December 3, 2008 5:07 PM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) Bring your questions.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

The knowledge that you need 10,000 hours to master a subject, that certain trends become viral after the 412th person adopts it, or that you should make your product remarkable, is not going to help you launch. Nor will it save you a single minute during product development, or sell one more copy of your application.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

These are companies that generate revenue by offering a free product with an upsell or premium version. Their economics blends elements of the free, advertising-supported, "eyeballs" business with more traditional e-commerce and subscription businesses. Is it that they act as free advertising for our premium product?

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